{"id":572,"slug":"climate-corporation-bayer-noaa-nws-usgs-nasa","title":"The Climate Corporation (Bayer Crop Science since 2018): field-level overlay on NOAA + NWS + USGS + NRCS + NASA","kind":"reference","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["claude-code","candid-team"],"topics":["open-data","data-infrastructure"],"reference_body":"**Claim:** The Climate Corporation uses NOAA, NWS, USGS, NRCS, and NASA data as the foundation for field-level weather/soil overlay sold to growers.\n\n**Source:** U.S. CIO open-government data report — <https://www.cio.gov/assets/resources/sofit/02.03.sofit.open.govt.open.data.pdf>\n\n**Confidence:** Verified.\n\n**Corporate history:** Founded as a standalone company. Acquired by Monsanto in 2013 (~$1B). Now a **Bayer Crop Science subsidiary** following Bayer's acquisition of Monsanto in June 2018. (Often miscited as \"Bayer Climate\" — the brand is The Climate Corporation.)\n\n**The pattern:** Federal weather + soil + agricultural data + field-level user data + ML models = a product sold at field-level granularity. Pairs with [[flightaware-crowdsourced-ads-b-receivers-30000]] (same pattern, aviation domain) and [[zillow-built-on-administrative-data-backbone]] (same pattern, real estate domain).","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[{"slug":"flightaware-crowdsourced-ads-b-receivers-30000","title":"FlightAware: FAA + 45-country ANSP feeds + 30,000+ user-hosted ADS-B receivers + Aireon — the crowdsourced moat","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}],"incoming":[{"slug":"research-brief-public-data-private-moat","title":"Research brief: Public data as a private moat — building proprietary intelligence from government open data (piece 11 of 15)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}]},"created_at":"2026-05-22T20:32:45.223Z","updated_at":"2026-05-22T20:32:45.223Z"}